federal government agencies, like the u.s. office of personnel management, the major personnel agency in federal government, are conducting huge surveys of federal employees now asking you how you feel about your work. some of the news is very good, some not so good, and some of it agrees with the perceptions i just showed you. there were 260,000 respondents to the survey of federal employees. one of the questions was, when needed i am willing to put in the extra efforts to get the job done. 97% of governmental appointees said yes. i would do that. we do not know exactly what that means. putting in extra effort? i will stay five minutes later? i will walk you do it and give you advice? there are all kinds of new ones is to survey research. of course, those of us to do survey research have noted over and again, if you ask people how hard they work or how motivated they are, you can imagine what they say. people do not like to think that they do not work very hard. years ago, i did a survey of this sort, and i asked a motivation